Like I care. My dad clued me in to this when I was 10. I never expect to see a dime of SS, and never will.

Oh goodness; don't get me started! To keep myself from going crazy over it, I just consider it a tax, a regressive one at that. I remember how certain politicians went crazy over the idea of privatization. They talked about the potential for negative returns. There are elders in my family who draw SS, but have also kept their jobs. They still pay more into SS each month than they draw from it. How is that not a negative return?

My guess is that the only generations who pulled more from this Ponzi scheme than they put into it were the ones who fought WWII and possibly Korea. It also has a negative impact on our population because it saddles us with a financial burden that eats into our household budgets. It's not tax deductible, and the point at which your income stops being docked is ridiculously high. It's a SCAM! The most expensive, crappy insurance policy ever.

And yet we are not legally allowed to take a percentage of earnings, and transfer it, tax free, into a retirement account....unless it happens to be the Jew-Ess(US) approved SSI tax, which also supports minorities and the "underprivleged", am I right?

We were lied to since day one. If anyone else had concocted such a scheme and ran it the government would have arrested and charged him for running a "Ponzi Scheme". All the money I have been contributing since my first earned dime was supposed to go into an account for me and earn interest. This is just one example of our government taking our money under the guise of being able to better manage it than we and buying votes with it. In fact most of the money that the government steals from us is used to work against our best interest.

At the present age of 48, I determined along time ago that I would probably work to the day I die because there won't be any SS left when I'm eligible.
Oh, and all that crap about immigrants being imported to strengthen those paying in is a big red herring. Who out there really thinks that a bunch of non-Whites are going to pay an ever increasing SS tax for a bunch of White baby boomers? If nothing else, the non-Whites will legislate away any SS promises made in the past.

Haha social security is in no trouble -it is your wallet and economic status that are in trouble because the bureaucrats in DC will not admit the obvious.

We have been putting more into social security than we have been taking out all this time, so the SSA has been paying out what they needed to pay and have used the rest to buy government bonds. Of course the government used that money up just like they do all government bond money.

The danger isn't 30 or 50 years away like everyone says, it's more like 7 years away and this is why:

In about 7 years, the SSA will begin giving out more money that it is taking in. When that happens, they will start to cash in all those years and years of government bonds they've been piling up. When they do this, the government will have to raise the funds to pay them.

All of these numbers that state that SSA will go bankrupt between 2030 and 2050 count this bond money, which represents a tax because that money does not exist, only the bonds exist. They will have to tax us sufficiently somewhere to raise the funds to pay for this. If the system does survive this process, it will be by virtue of a drastically raised SSA tax, and when they finally do start getting more in than they pay out, they will not lower the SSA tax back to its original percentage, they will just buy more bonds and wait for the next catastrophe. In this way social security will slowly turn this nation into a total Marxist state.

I don't see much of a way out of it. To fix social security, you'd have to elect Ron Paul as President and then elect enough representatives that will support his views to make legislation to that effect. And it all has to happen within a decade.